Chronology Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chronology Firsts Hope Sparrows Spring Year Beginning Years
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach… — Donald G. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves.… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. — Don Williams Jr Copy Share Image
Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Sometimes indirect style and varying chronology is great, but quite often I've seen it be just something that gets in the way. It turns… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words.… — Peter O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't possess that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image